How to Repair Electronic Drums

Video Transcript

"Welcome to Expert Village. I'm Steve Blank, your electronic drum coach, here to demonstrate what we can do with electronic drums. We can repair the cymbal pads. First you start with prying that pin out with your fingernails. Do that, get all those out. This pad is actually not damaged but we'll be able to see everything we need to see. Now, this is the tricky part. You have to start prying this away. You really do want to be careful; there are some parts in here you could break. I'm just going to keep going around like that. Two separate pieces. Red and the white wire; the white is on the outside; the red is on the inside. Now they could come off on the circuit board also; and as you can see this orientation, and I'm doing this for my benefit too because sometimes they both come off, and then you have to guess or just trial and error. The one on the right is red and the one on the left is white. But they come off on both sides. That is all that goes wrong with these pads that I'm aware of; so learning to repair them can be very valuable. OK, putting it back. Little trick here. Starting in the corner, not only do we have to feed the pins back in, but all of these little rubber bumps have to fit into their hole in the plastic. It's a little easier at the backside. It's coming together."